Tokyo, Japan – Alberto Zaccheroni, the Italian head coach of japan’s national football team, speaks before the foreign and domestic media during a news conference at Tokyo’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan on Monday, December 16, 2013. Zaccheroni and his 11 in the Samurai Blue will meet Ivory Coast, Colombia and Greece in the 2014 FIFA World Cup elimination round slated for June in Brazil. (Photo by Natsuki Sakai/AFLO)

Tokyo, Japan – Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose attends a press conference announcing his resignation, December 19, 2013. Inose, who helped bring the 2020 Olympics to the nation’s capital, has been under fire in the city assembly over a 50 million yen loan from the scandal-tainted medical group, senior members of which have been arrested on election fraud charges. (Photo by Motoo Naka/AFLO)